Water-bag.



E. J. STRAUS.

WATER BAG.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 31, I916.

Patented Mar. 20, 1917.

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WATER-BAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatented Mar. 20, 1917.

Application filed July 31, 1916. Serial No. 112,401.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, EUGENE J. STRAUS, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in lVatenBags, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement in water-bags.

In army campaigns and pack-transportation service, particularly in hot, arid countries, it is often necessary that water be carried or transported along in sufficiently large quantities to meet both human and animal requirements. And I am informed that the army in its present Mexican service, finding the containersusually relatively small barrels-heretofore generally employed, in addition to individual canteens, in transporting water not only difficult of convenient handling, but also inadequate for the demands of the service, has greatly felt the need of a suitable container capable of efficiently meeting the needs and requirements of the service mentioned, that is to say, a container not only capable of holding a more or less considerable quantity of water, but which might also be easily handled and quickly filled and from which water might be conveniently taken or drawn as desired, and which at the same time might be readily lashed or securediin an approximately evenly or equally balanced load upon or across the back of the transporting pack-animal.

The chief object of my present invention is then to provide a comparatively inexpensive water-bag especially adapted for army and pack-transportation service and capable of efficiently meeting and filling the requirements above stated.

And with the above and other objects in view, my present invention resides in the novel form and construction of my new water-bag and in the combination of its several parts, all as will hereinafter be described and afterward pointed out in the claims. I

In the accompanying drawing, in which my new water-bag is shown in preferred form,

Figure 1 is an edge view of a water-bag embodying my invention, showing the same as slung across and operatively lashed or secured upon the back of a. transporting animal illustrated in dotted lines;

Fig. 2 is a front or side elevational view of the bag;

Figs. 3 and a are enlarged detail sectional views on approximately the lines 3-3 and t l, Fig. 2, respectively;

Fig. 5 is also a detail sectional view through one wall of the bag, showing the bags detachable faucet operatively fitted and mounted thereupon; and 1 Figs. 6 and 7 are enlarged detail sectional views on approximately the lines 66 and 7--7, Fig. 2, respectively.

Referring to the said drawing, in which like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views, my new waterbag in plan view, as seen in Fig. 2, is preferably rectangular in form or shape and includes the two approximately similar walls 1 and 2 disposed fiatwise at and adjacent their edges one upon the other. These walls 1 and 2 are of any suitable flexible material, such as, and preferably, heavy water-proof duck. Doubled or folded and extending upon the outer faces of the walls 1 and 2 at their edges, is a strip 3 also preferably of heavy water-proof duck. The strip 3 extends completely around the bag as seen in Fig. 2, and extending through the strip 3 and both walls 1 and 2 are rows of thread stitches or the like l l permanently securing the strip 3 and walls 1 andZ together in water-tight relation, the bag being also reinforced and protected against wear at the edges of its walls 1 and 2 by the strip 3.

lVithin its area, one wall of the bag, as, for instance, wall 1, is cut away to provide a suitable aperture to accommodate an internally threaded ring 5 provided preferably integrally with an annular flange 6 disposed exteriorly of the bag. Disposed within the bag and encircling the ring 5, is a metallic washer 7 and also encircling the ring 5 and interposed between the flange (3 and washer 7 and the outer and inner faces of the wall 1 the bag are leather or other suitable washers 8 and 9, respectively. Extending through wall 1, flange 6, and washers 7 8, and 9, and permanently securing the same together in water-tight relation, are rivets or the like 10. The ring 5, which is of relatively large diameter, is adapted to provide a relatively large opening into the bag, whereby the same may be conveniently M12, adapted to receive the pins or lugs 13 5 18 oppositely projecting leather or the like 26 of a suitable tool 14 for screwing the cap 11. into, or removing the same from, its seat or ring 5. As seen in Fig. 2, the ring or inlet 5 is somewhat centrally arranged in the bag, so that, should occasion require, the bag may be quickly filled by merely submerging the same approximately flatwise in a stream, spring, or the like.

Also and approximately similarly fixed in the wall 1 of the bag, but'disposed preferably adjacent one end of the bag, as seen in Fig. 2, is a second internally threaded flanged ring 15 adapted likewise to receive a suitable closure cap 16. This ring 15, which is of smaller diameter preferably than ring 5, is adapted to provide an outlet for the contents of the bag, the cap 16 being similarly provided with a pair of spaced recesses, as at 17, to receive the pins or lugs from the tool 14 for screwing the same into, or removing the same from, its seat or ring 15.

At suitable points along the side edges of the bag, I provide eyelets, rings, or the like 19 adapted to accommodate straps, lashes, or the like for securely fastening the bag upon an aparejo, for instance, or otherwise upon the back of a pack-animal, each respective eyelet or ring 19 being loosely engaged 5 by the loop 20 of a section of leather or other suitable material 21 doubled or folded upon the walls 1 and 2 of the bag at their edges and securely and permanently fixed thereto by preferably rows of thread stitches or the like 2222 extending through both bagwalls 1 and 2 and also the strip 3, as seen particularly in Fig. 6,

And at each end of the bag, I provide a preferably swingable handle 23, each handle 5 23 being suitably engaged by rings 2% engaged, in turn, by the loops 25 of a section of doubled or folded upon the bag at its ends securely fixed thereto by preferably rows of 0 threaded stitches or the like 2727 extending similarly through both Walls 1 and 2 and also the strip 3.

In use or operation, cap 16 being seated in its ring 15 and cap 11 being removed from 5 its seat 5, the bagmay be readily and quickly filled through its inlet 5, the water or contents of the bag being drawn or taken as required or needed from the bag through its outlet 15. And to facilitate the convenient 0 removal of water from thebag as may be required, Iprovide a suitable faucet 28 having a threaded portion adapted to detachably fit the outlet-ring 15, the flow of Water from the bag through the faucet 28 being controlled 5 or regulated by a suitable valve-operatingand permanently and handle 29, as will be Well understood. It will be obvious that, in such use of the bag, it may be conveniently suspended by means of its upper handle 23.

In transporting the bag, it will now be evident that the bag, being readily flexible, may be easily slung across an aparejo or other pack-saddle 30 arranged upon the back of a pack-animal 31, both shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 for purposes of illustration, and securely lashed thereupon as by means of the straps, lashes, ropes or the like 32 engaging the eyelets 19, as well as also, if necessary, the handles 23, as shown, the bag quickly accommodating an even adjustment or balance of the load or contents upon opposite sides of the packanimal.

I may add that my new bag is designed to contain approximately twenty-five gallons of water.

Having thus I claim and ent is:

1. A water-bag of the kind and for the purposes described, the same being adapted to be slung across the back of a transportinganimal and including a pair of walls of water-proof material, a reinforcing strip folded over and upon said walls at their edges, fastening means extending through both said walls and said strip for permanently securing the same together in watertight relation, and strap-receiving members projectingoutwardly from the side edges'of the bag, said members being fixed upon said strap and to the bag.

'2. A water-bag of the kind and for the purposes described, the same being adapted to be slung across the back of a transportinganimal and including a pair of walls of described my invention, what desire to secure by Letters Patwater-proof'material, a reinforcing strip of water-proof material folded over and upon said walls at their edges, fastening means extending through both said walls and said strip for permanently securing the same together in water-tight relation, flexible hingemembers projecting outwardly from the side edges of the bag, said members being permanently fixed upon said strip and to the bag, and strap-receiving members permanently engaged and secured to hinge-members.

3. A water-bag of the kind and for the purposes described, the same being adapted to be slung across the back of a transporting-animal and including a pair of Walls of water-proof material, a strip'of water-proof material folded over and upon said walls at their edges, fastening means extending through both said walls and said strip for permanently securing the same together in water-tight relation, sections of flexible material folded over and upon said strip and providing hinge-members upon the bag,

the bag by said means engaging said sections, the strip, and said Walls for permanently securing said sections upon the bag, and strap-receiving members engaged and secured to the bag by said flexible sections.

t. A Water-bag of the kind and for the purposes described, the same including a pair of Walls of Water-proof material permanently secured together at their edges in 10 water-tight relation, said Walls being of ex- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the tended area, the bag being adapted to be slung across the back of a transportinganimal and members fixed to the bag at its edges to receive straps for fastening the same upon the animal, the bag being provided With a suitable Water-opening.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

EUGENE J. STRAUS.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,219,502, granted March 20 1917, upon the application of Eugene J. Straus, of St. Louis, Missouri, for an improvementin Water-Begs, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows? Page 2, line 102, claim 1, for the Word strap.

N33; 2 as R. F. WHIT'EHEAD, Acting Uommissioner of Patents.

read strip; and that the saidLetters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this 17th day of April, A. D., 1917.

[SEAL] Cl. 150-O-5. 

